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[Q] Lost Access to WP7 Partition after I booted into Android

I am dual booting WP7 and Android the latest Cyanagen Magldr from the SD card. Before i installed android Windows saw its half of the 32GB partition without an issue. AFter this I:
I booted into android and set everything up,
Rebooted again into windows, verified again the partition was still there.
I booted back into Andriod installed a few apps then rebooted to setup windows
Once i booted into windows to continue with setup i checked the partition information and it only sees 176.53MB
I checked the partitions in easus partition manager and Both Partitions are primary with the windows partition a little bit bigger than the Android
How do I get it back without having to start over?

{guide}Flash rom to sdcard for dual boot from windows

This is how I flashed a rom to my sdcard for dual booting
This method is for roms that use normal updater-script
If you want to do this with a rom that uses the aroma installer such as Nottachtrix go here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25901115#post25901115
I was only able to achieve this after following sendust7 linux guide for dual boot and adapting to windows so all credit goes to him.
His method IMHO is better but if you are hell bent on doing this with windows then here it is
Again these are the steps I took. If you try this and break something I'm not responsible.
Pre-requisites
Notepad++
Minitool partition wizard
Android SDK (google adb for dummies to get everything you need)
Cygwin (if you dont have it start install now and it might be done when its time to use it)
The rom zip you want on your sdcard
Moto-fastboot (search this forum)
Knowledge of ADB and fastboot
Fully Charged Battery
winrar
boot.img from rom currently flashed to phone (pull this from rom.zip that you currently have flashed to phone
Backup everything from internal and external sdcard
NANDROID NOW!!!!!!
Insert sdcard into computer and open minitool partition wizard.
Create four partitions and format them with the same filesystem that the rom uses (ext3 or ext4) name them accordingly (system data and cache) and make primary.
These are the partition sizes I went with and only because i didnt feel like adjusting the slider anymore. But These values did ensure they were big enough to hold the phone partitions. The first partition is whats left over after resizing other partitions and will be formatted to fat32
first partition is whats left over and formatted as fat32
system=353 MB

1st ever reply...
thank for make a guide...

thank you for making a Windows guide.

3 Recovery Partitons?

So I just bought a new Lenovo Lynx and I noticed that even though it has a 64GB drive, the C drive is only 48GB. Upon my investigation, I found that there are 3 partitions labeled as "Recovery". The total space adds up to about 9GB. See attachement.
My question is: Can I remove them and if so, what's the best way to do so?

The largest recovery partition has the actual .WIM factory install image. Windows has a separate recovery partition for its own recovery use (when you select advanced boot options). I forget what the 3rd one is for.
You can remove them, but you will have to create your own recovery routine beforehand, because both the Lenovo and Windows recovery routines will fail w/o the partitions present.
Suggest leaving them in place for the first month of use, as if an issue arises that require support, the main troubleshooting step would be to reset to factory install. If that's not available, support will be problematic.
Suggest installing Acronis True Image 2014 free trial, and make a bootable USB from it (the boot image isn't affected by the trialware). Reset your system to factory install. To keep it "virgin," don't start up Windows after the reset.
Use TrueImage USB to back up the restored partition to external USB storage. To verify, restore from the just-made backup copy, and start up Windows. If the backup is good, the restore should be good, and your system should start up properly. (If the restore fails, then do another factory reset using the Lenovo method.) You now have your own factory install backup.
To claim the space, simplest is to delete the two recovery partitions after the main partition, then expand the main partition using Win's Disk Manager. To reclaim the 1GB partition would require a wipe and repartition of the drive.
PS: The 64GB drive is actually 59.6GB (64 / 1.024^3).

So just to be sure, I can install Windows 8.1 Pro from a USB just like any other PC but I have to make sure not to touch the EFI partition?

Don't have to download and install stuffs that you'll only use once. You can just use windows search and look for a way to create a recovery disk. It'll even ask if you want to delete the existing recovery partition at the end.
Sent from my U9200

bountygiver said:
Don't have to download and install stuffs that you'll only use once. You can just use windows search and look for a way to create a recovery disk. It'll even ask if you want to delete the existing recovery partition at the end.
Sent from my U9200
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Thanks! That made the space usable by creating a new drive from the old recovery partition. When I try to use a partition tool to merge the 2 partitions, they tell me it can't be done. Is the best way to go about this just reinstalling windows and editing the partitions during the installation?

The point of "installing stuff" is not just to extract the recovery image, but also to have your own backup solution. There is a reason the Win8.x image backup is hard to find--because it's deprecated. It's also very limited. Having your own solution avoids the vagaries of Windows quirks. Some OEM recovery also depends on a particular partitioning scheme, and would fail if that scheme has been altered.
Then again, I understand that people don't take data integrity seriously, until after a crash. It's pretty stupid to nuke the recovery partition when prompted, BEFORE VERIFYING that the USB recovery key works. That's why you see the laments of some peeps here, begging for factory images that they FUBAR'ed.

Well, something nasty happened and I couldn't get the tablet to boot. Here are the steps I tried:
Startup Repair
Command Prompt > sfc
PC Refresh
PC Reset
And finally... Created a bootable USB with Windows 8.1 Pro and reinstalled Windows.
I now have only 2 partitions... 1 recovery and one primary.
Thanks everybody for your help.

Help restoring system image

Hello, I recently had to send in my laptop to get a speaker fixed and was told to make a backup, as the laptop would be reset, I made a system image tested it before I sent it in, it restored fine, but now that I got it back I was no longer able to restore it, it gave me the message "To restore this computer. Windows needs to format the drive that the Windows recovery Environment is currently running on. To continue with the restore, shut down this computer and boot it from a windows installation disk or a system repair disc and then try to restore again." Now the problem is I have tried this, I got hp to send me a recovery disk, but there is no option to restore the system image, it goes straight to resetting the computer it does not have the advance startup options. I have made my own recovery disk using the windows 8 tool and tried, that has the advanced startup options but gives me the same message when in try to restore it. I also have a system image of when i first got the laptop back from them, but i could not restore that either. I have tired near everything ( I just don't want to type out everything I did) any help would be appreciated, If you need anymore details just ask.

Is there at least some way to make a better recovery media, or a windows 8 installation usb? Theres gotta be a way because I know when I tested my image it restored before i sent it in perfectly

What device did you put the recovery image on?
By the way, it's very common and easy to put the recovery tools on a bootable flashdrive; it's included on the install media, so just follow the steps for making a bootable install image on a flashdrive.

GoodDayToDie said:
What device did you put the recovery image on?
By the way, it's very common and easy to put the recovery tools on a bootable flashdrive; it's included on the install media, so just follow the steps for making a bootable install image on a flashdrive.
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Its on one partition of an external hard drive I have, and is what you are talking about above available for win 8.1? Lately I've tried looking for a windows 8.1 iso to make a bootable drive from but cant seem to find one that works. Also thank you for your help

... Huh. If it's on an external drive, then the error you're getting doesn't make a lot of sense anyhow. (But then, I guess you knew that.)
Creating a bootable flash drive is easy. You can either use one of a handful of tools, or just do it manually using diskpart on the command line. Wipe the drive, make sure it's using MBR, create one partition, mark that partition Active, format it FAT32. Then just copy (literally, you can use Explorer for this step if you want) the entire contents of the boot media, such as the DVD, onto your flashdrive. If you don't have a DVD drive to boot from for this part, you can mount the ISO or use 7-Zip to extract the contents of the .ISO file system.
If you *do* have a DVD drive or other bootable media, it should certainly be possible to enter the recovery environment for your OS. The actual steps to restore your backup from there, though, are less clear to me; I've never used the Win8 recovery tools.

I can't find a working iso for windows 8.1, but I noticed that the recovery media I have has the bootx64.efi set up in a weird way which is probably why its not booting into the options I need to restore the image. I tried to make one on a separate USB combining the two I have with the factores image but the boot and efi folders from the other that gives me the options but that would not show up at all to boot into

Thanks for your help, should I mark this as solved

Install from USB to hard drive (without OS)

Hi,
I was able to install it in USB, and it is booting from USB. But I want to install it on the hard drive. There is no option in the grub menu to install on hard drive...
Can I edit the grub to make it possible to install on the hard drive?
Any tutorial to make it work from HD?
I believe the option to install on hard drive was there with older versions... As I can see on the screenshots here: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/android-pc-phoenix-os/

P.O.S as main OS
Create two partitions, 8gb FAT32 for GRUB thingy and the rest is EXT4. Boot from USB, make sure the whole Phoenix OS is installed on the EXT4 partition, GRUB will automatically installs on the FAT32 one..